AECAI 20th anniversary!!! 

For its 20th anniversary, the Augmented Environments for Computer-Assisted Interventions (AE-CAI), Computer-Assisted Robotic Endoscopy (CARE), and Context Aware Operating Theaters (OR 2.0) workshop, will join forces with the 1st edition of the Precise Mixed Reality for Surgical and Medical Interventions (PRiSM) workshop as a co-located full-day event hosted @ MICCAI in Strasbourg, France on September 27th, 2026. This workshop will feature high-quality, original papers and invited keynote presentations on the latest scientific, technical and translational advances in developing the next generation of AE-CAI, CARE and OR systems.

CALL FOR DEMOS

We also welcome submission of proposals for live demos. All accepted demos will be showcased during the AECAI-PRiSM WS on Sept 27th and will be featured in the 2026 Special Issue of Wiley’s Healthcare Technology Letters journal dedicated to the 2026 AECAI-PRiSM proceedings.

IMPORTANT DATES

***The Microsoft CMT service was used for managing the peer-reviewing process for this conference. This service was provided for free by Microsoft and they bore all expenses, including costs for Azure cloud services as well as for software development and support.***

Paper Submission Deadline: July 16th, 2026
Notification of Acceptance to AECAI: August 6th
Response to Reviewers and Revised Manuscripts Due: August 20th
Notification about Special Issue Proceedings: August 31st
Workshop: September 27th

PROCEEDINGS

Workshop proceedings will be published in a Special Issue on AE-CAI | CARE | OR 2.0 | PRiSM of Wiley’s IET Healthcare Technology Letters journal.  Please format your manuscripts using the Wiley IET HTL style files and formatting before submission.

THEMES

We encourage submission of papers that demonstrate clinical relevance, clinical applications and validation studies. We encourage the submission of papers describing bold new ideas, proof of concepts, early-stage prototypes and innovative ways to make such tools more accessible, affordable and environmentally friendly, rather than incremental improvements. Topics to be addressed include:

  • Augmented, virtual and mixed reality
  • Medical image visualization and understanding
  • Surgical simulation and training
  • Image-guided and robotic surgery
  • HCI considerations in computer-assisted surgery
  • Accessible and affordable surgical technologies
  • Robotic and navigated endoscopy
  • Stereoscopic and ultrasound endoscopy
  • Endoscopy skill training and evaluation
  • Endoscope tracking, navigation, planning and simulation
  • Endoscopic video computing and computer vision for endoscopic applications
  • Context-Aware Operating Theatres
  • Surgical scene understanding
  • Surgical process modelling
  • Surgical activity and workflow recognition
  • Surgical training and assessment
  • Surgical decision support
  • Multi-modal surgical intelligence

AWARDS

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